Madame Kokovtseva, of the 6th Ural Cossack Regiment with her head bandaged after being twice wounded in East Prussia. One of 400 Russian women bearing arms during the First World War, her bravery won her the Cross of St. George together with the promise of a military pension. Pictured in The Tatler in 1915, the magazine explains that owing to her wound, she was 'pursuing the good work of reading to and comforting the wounded in hospital in Petrograd.'